THE DIRTY SUSPECT DIVISION

Its been well noted by many artists that the way of a true MC its by living and abiding by the culture of hip hop… being a part of a group of individuals who love grimey street ciphers, funky break beats, beautiful paint covering boring structures, and a way of life felt through the feeling of word and beat expressing these ideas of their daily routine… HIP HOP is more than just an escape its a window of opportunity that members of THE DIRTY SUSPECTS have honed in on and began to cultivate their styles and sound to spread a movement of security in a suspect ass world with music. Consistancy is a big key to success and lately the suspects have been on their grind doing shows recently with Strong Arm Steady, Dj Muggs, Blu, Talib Kweli, 2 Mex, Myka 9, AWOL One soaking in the scenery and learning to progress through the love the fans show to our music. We Thank the people who listen to our music and with your continued help we can put together a 2012 that puts the SUSPECT MOVEMENT on the map.

On a different note i am pleased to break to yall the SUSPECTS are sneaking around the studio once more and are back to doin what we do best making that good music. Nappy just finished doing a link up with J Hooks on a mixtape called ‘Hook up at the Nappy Hour’ search YouTube to check them out. Thrive Da Sun also has been crafting a well anticipated project with his group the Kasino Gang, (shouts out to them) called slumpers coming soon… be very afraid… Qwa has been lowkey working on a mixtape titled ‘The Hibernation’ lookin to drop sometime next year in around Feb…. all suspects are official and in movement.

Be on the look for a suspect project called ‘The Full Dirty’

This is a peace love and hip hop from the dirty suspects..

keep your speakers grimey

shouts to os1 in the lab

OCTOBER has been a huge month for the Dirty Suspects. This month has already featured a show @the terrace in Pasadena, CA. put together by IZOVA from LavishEnt.. Closing out the Month your local Dirty Suspects will be performing @ Malones in Santa Ana, CA for the album release parties of BLU (OPEN LP) & MED (CLASSIC LP)… Tickets for this even are on sale now, we have presale tickets for $12 and it will be $15 at the door. Make sure to make it out to this event and keep HIP HOP ALIVE!!!

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… as the Mobb Deep anthem so vividly relates this idea of our modern world. Depicted in lines of music we spread a message and culture passed on from one generation to another. In hip hops short existence the sounds of this soul expression in music relaying grimey street tunes to slippery when wet flows that roll off the tip of your tounge has vastly change and shifted as new forms of self expression is introduced with the passing of every guard.

Top: Public Enemy

Rap groups such as Public Enemy of the late 80s set the tone and stage for the environment that hip hop would soon manipulate itself into, as gangsta West Coast hip hop of the 90s clashed with the already established thick and gritty New York style of the fast life. Even as war on the coasts blazed on, outside media influences pressured artists on issues regarding the lifestyle choices and messages MCs and rappers were sending out to the listening fans about hip hop and felt they were negatively casting an image that would plant a bad seed in a future generations way of thinking. They were right, but what they were wrong about was the future… and failed to take notice that the change was already made… this message already planted and influenced an angry youth culture that so readily embodied the ‘FUCK THE WORLD’ mantra and latched on to bucking up against the system falling into line with the past impressions left on society, except this time there was a whole lot of hate.

Bottom: Eminem and Dr. Dre

Upon the Closing of the 90s and while an amped up hip hop society climbs out of the trenches of the East-coast West-coast rivalry the fans of everyday America needed to say fuck you to the system once more for taking two greats such as Pac and Biggie. They found their answer in white rapper Eminem aka The Real Slim Shady. Obsessed with his hate rhymes and lickity split rhyme schemes this MC took the level of freestyling and spittn rhymes period to a whole other ballpark and ushered in the evolution to what hip hop has become today.

Pre Eminem era hip hop found and said goodbye to some greats, created everlasting styles (thank you adidas and russell), slapped more bass and sounds on more corners and in more cars than you can think of, and influenced more lifes on a daily basis in a positive way than the music we call hip hop today. With the emergence of Tyler the Creator and his odd future counterparts I pose a question… Where will hip hop be tomorrow? and how can you help to change where we are going??

As a member of the suspects i promise to stay aware of what REAL hip hop is and will do my best to keep what i do an art. I hope yall enjoy what we do and respect what we do musically. I thank yall for the listens and support.. we as the DIRTY SUSPECTS promote good music and good living we just hope yall help to keep good hip hop going. HIP HOP IS NOT DEAD THE SUSPECTS ARE HERE

The Month of may is closing fast and coming to an end. The Dirty Suspects this month we’re highly active on the stage doing a number of shows in the Riverside area. Sunday May 29, 2011 (today) @ WORTHINGTONS TAVERN downtown Riverside on University will be the final show of the month of may for the group, as they will launch into a full-time workshop of lab sessions and promotional appointments to work on the much anticipated follow up mixtape ‘Suspect Chemistry Vol. II: MASTERS AT WORK’ and the freshman ep of ‘EVERYONE’S A SUSPECT’. Look for the summer to get cranked up as the suspects boost the crime rate in a city, club, car or house near you.

From Left b/w: Quincy Jones, Qwa Savage, P. Haze, Thrive, Nappy

SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS

From Left: Nappy, Quincy Jones, Thrive, Qwa